From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: strange mount behaviour...
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990224144437.B26668@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: < 19990224144809.15898.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com >; from Earnie Boyd on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:48:09AM -0800
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:48:09AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr> wrote:
>8<
>> Could anyone explain me why mounting D: ou D:/ ou d:/ to /d produce
>these
>> artefacts ? Doing the same thing with C: ou E: will NOT cause any
>problem.
>> Is it impossible to mount the drive where cygwin is located ?
>Installing
>> coolview did not help too. As well as binary mount.
>8<
>
>This is a known bug with the mount filesystem emulation and relative
>paths. When you do `ls d' you are actually displaying the contents of
>the mount point directory which is empty even on UNIX. When you do
>`ls /d' the emulation resolves correctly and you see the contents of d:.
>
>This may have been fixed in recent snapshots. I know that Geoff Noer
>reworked the code for the mounted directories. Caution, using
>snapshots may cause other problems as snapshots aren't tested. Please
>read the change log to find out what has changed.
I don't think this has been fixed, actually.
Corrinna submitted a patch that deleted about fifteen lines of code and
caused the correct behavior to miraculously appear but I've been sort of
nervous about applying the patch because I'm not sure what other
ramifications there may be.
cgf
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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: strange mount behaviour...
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990224144437.B26668@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.Z8L21fRuNKvQh7H70r43ryeOS5pJ0e1DcmE9-Xc3Hps@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990224144809.15898.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:48:09AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr> wrote:
>8<
>> Could anyone explain me why mounting D: ou D:/ ou d:/ to /d produce
>these
>> artefacts ? Doing the same thing with C: ou E: will NOT cause any
>problem.
>> Is it impossible to mount the drive where cygwin is located ?
>Installing
>> coolview did not help too. As well as binary mount.
>8<
>
>This is a known bug with the mount filesystem emulation and relative
>paths. When you do `ls d' you are actually displaying the contents of
>the mount point directory which is empty even on UNIX. When you do
>`ls /d' the emulation resolves correctly and you see the contents of d:.
>
>This may have been fixed in recent snapshots. I know that Geoff Noer
>reworked the code for the mounted directories. Caution, using
>snapshots may cause other problems as snapshots aren't tested. Please
>read the change log to find out what has changed.
I don't think this has been fixed, actually.
Corrinna submitted a patch that deleted about fifteen lines of code and
caused the correct behavior to miraculously appear but I've been sort of
nervous about applying the patch because I'm not sure what other
ramifications there may be.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-24 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-24 6:48 Earnie Boyd
[not found] ` < 19990224144809.15898.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com >
1999-02-24 11:49 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
1999-02-25 13:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Earnie Boyd
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1999-03-04 5:56 Earnie Boyd
[not found] ` < 19990304135705.27427.rocketmail@send103.yahoomail.com >
1999-03-04 8:10 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-04 15:14 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
[not found] <Sebastien>
[not found] ` <Barre's>
[not found] ` <message>
[not found] ` <of>
[not found] ` <"Wed,>
[not found] ` <24>
[not found] ` <Feb>
[not found] ` <1999>
[not found] ` <02:14:52>
[not found] ` <+0100>
1999-02-23 17:15 ` Sebastien Barre
1999-02-24 0:08 ` Levon Saldamli
[not found] ` < 7wsobw8gql.fsf@sandra.lysator.liu.se >
1999-02-24 0:59 ` Sebastien Barre
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Sebastien Barre
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Levon Saldamli
1999-03-03 13:25 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Sebastien Barre
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